Loft Conversion E.P. - you got to love it
St Albans massive - part of the Hertfordshire Annex to the Hardcore Continuum (Omni, Source Direct, Photek, Gappa G and Hypa Hypa, Omni Trio, DJ Trax I think, others too)
Not in the first rank of ardkore + jungle - now if they were Omni level, there'd be more polemical strength to the comparison with you-know-who
But this kind of thing = the real Britpop. I thought that then. Think it now.
And it was pretty popular, with the populace. Chart music for a good stretch there..
This is Oaysis's first-rank moment
"I think we've found / A special place... Just close your eyes / And dream with me"
Better still, the Slipmatt remix
Oaysis started on Formation, up in Leicester, then went to an actual Hertfordshire label - Stevenage's Moving Shadow
One of those groups that tended to go a bit wispy when they shifted from ardkore to intelligent
One of them - Danny Hopkins - became Hopa, as in Hopa & Bones - a name that always tickled me. Although I can see now that it's just a twist on Hopkins. Still, it's an archetypally nuum sort of name, isn't it? Hopa n Bones.
Danny Hopkins also recorded, earlier, as Higher Octave
Track called "Raise the Bones"
The other two seem to have dropped out of music.
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I always thought it was a little unfortunate they'd chosen a similar name to "The Microwave Beatles" (think that's a Ron Wells quote).
There was also a 96 Slipmatt remix in addition to the 93 one you posted which is more stompy, on the Formation happy hardcore sub-label vicious vinyl.
https://youtu.be/3mtsmi2OQPg?si=BtQv0BSnyiBAij7p
I think Incredible Bass or Enticer are my favourites!
Well I think they came up with it simultaneously with the band, who were unknown then. Oaysis had releases out a year before the Gallaghers did, their first single was 1993.
I think it's kind of pukey name in both cases, and worse with the 'y'. It's like a wank intelligent jungle name before that sound existed. Bit like Aquasky but worse!
aquasky strugatsky
It signified the encroachment of the middle classes into the scene or upward mobility at least, this ep. The scene had once been fine coming "straight from the bedroom" and here it is talking about loft conversions. Two years later it's being played at jazz clubs in Shoreditch!
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